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joints . . . may be noticed, and lameness or stiffness from muscular 

 or inter-muscular extravasation. Blood effusions into . . . the eye 

 have been noticed, and paralytic or comatose symptoms from similar 

 effusions on the brain. In the absence of improvement the patient 

 becomes more and more debilitated and exhausted, and death may be 

 preceded by profuse exhausting diarrhoea." 



"Prognosis is unfavourable in advanced cases, and when the faulty 

 regimen cannot be corrected." 



Treatment. " The first consideration is to correct the unwholesome 

 conditions of life, purify the building and its surroundings, and allow a 

 free range on pasture. Subject each patient to a thorough soapy wash, 

 and if possible allow clean running water in which a bath may be taken 

 at will. Access to green food and invertebrates (slugs, larvse, etc.) is 

 important, or a varied diet of grain, middlings, bran, roots, fruits, tubers, 

 cabbage, silage, etc., must be furnished. Iron and bitters (gentian, nux 

 vomica) are useful, and sometimes small doses of arsenite of soda solu- 

 tion or cream of tartar are useful. Acorns or horse-chestnuts are 

 recommended. For the mouth a wash of potassium chlorate, soda 

 biborate, or potassium permanganate may be resorted to. . . . In 

 the case of fat pigs it is more profitable to butcher at once, as soon 

 as early symptoms appear." From Law's " Veterinary Medicine," 

 p. 558, Vol. III. 



